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Peter Kien, a reclusive Viennese sinologist who lives only for his enormous library, marries his housekeeper Therese, and his world begins to come apart.
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Dog Years
The friendship of Walter Matern and Eddi Amsel, two boys from a village near Danzig, from the 1920s through the Nazi years and after, told by three narrators and shadowed by a line of black dogs.
Wonderful, Wonderful Times
In late-1950s Vienna, four teenagers, among them the twins Rainer and Anna, carry out violent robberies in the park out of boredom and contempt.
The Piano Teacher
Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory nearing forty, lives with her controlling mother, and when a young student, Walter Klemmer, pursues her, she sets out her own terms.
The Tin Drum
A boy born with a scream that can shatter glass drums his way through the horrors of Nazi Germany, refusing to grow up in a world not worth being adult in.
The Obscene Bird of Night
Humberto Peñaloza, a failed writer turned servant who calls himself Mudito, narrates from a crumbling Santiago house of retreat for old women, retelling his service to an aristocratic family and the deformed heir they hid away on an estate peopled by monsters.
The Unnamable
A voice, placeless and without a body it can be sure of, talks on and on, trying to say who it is and to stop talking.
The Grass Is Singing
In Southern Rhodesia, Mary Turner, a town woman married to a failing farmer, is found murdered on the farm, and the novel goes back to show how she came there.
The Spire
Dean Jocelin, convinced he has been chosen by God, drives his medieval cathedral to build a four-hundred-foot spire on foundations that cannot bear it.
Malina
A woman living in Vienna with a silent man named Malina and loving a violent one named Ivan writes her own disappearance in a book that is part novel, part score.
The Day of the Locust
Tod Hackett, a young set designer at a Hollywood studio in the 1930s, falls for a would-be starlet and watches the bored, disappointed people who came to California to die turn ugly.
Miss Lonelyhearts
A male newspaper columnist who answers desperate letters as Miss Lonelyhearts in Depression-era New York takes his readers' suffering to heart, while his cynical editor mocks his growing religious crisis.
The Republic of Wine
A special investigator is sent to Liquorland to look into reports that officials are cooking and eating baby boys, and is drunk almost as soon as he arrives.